Socrates Cafes and other Philosophy Groups in SF Bay Area Socrates Cafes and other Philosophy Groups in the SF Bay Area
Last updated December 11, 2005
Berkeley Socrates Cafe
Au Coquelet Cafe (back room) 2000 University Ave at Milvia
Downtown Berkeley (one block west of Shattuck)
6:30 - 8:00 PM, every other Wednesday
(e.g., 12/7, 12/21, 1/4, 1/18, etc.)
Contact: (warrentighe@hotmail.com) MapQuest map.
The Living Philosophers Group The North Berkeley Senior Center
1901 Hearst Street
Berkeley (corner of Martin Luther King)
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM, every Friday
Contact: hdmoe@speakeasy.net Rockridge Philosophy Discussion Group Spasso Coffeehouse, 6021 College Ave.
Oakland (just south of Claremont Avenue)
6:30 - 8:00 PM, every other Wednesday
(e.g., 12/7, 12/21, 1/4, 1/18, etc.)
More information is at www.slowthinking.org
Contact: Christopher (christopher@slowthinking.org) MapQuest Map San Francisco Socrates Cafe 1
Wild Awakenings Coffee Shop, 142 McAllister Street @ Hyde
San Francisco
6:30 - 8:30 PM every Wednesday
Contact: Lorenzo Tan (eqgrowth@yahoo.com) MapQuest Map San Francisco Socrates Cafe 2
Cafe du Louvre
1032 Clement St.
San Francisco (between 11th and 12th)
4:00 to 6:00 PM, first Sunday of the month
Contact: Linda Greenberg (incaprincess@earthlink.net) Walnut Creek Socrates Cafe
Cafe La Scala, 1655 N. Main St.
Walnut Creek (SW corner of Main & Civic, opp. city hall)
6:30 - 8:30 PM (and often beyond), every other Wednesday
(e.g., 12/14, 12/28, 1/11, 1/25, etc.)
Cafe serves food (cafe phone = 925-935-7779)
Contact: Aldo (aborromei@earthlink.net) MapQuest Map New Socrates Cafes Forming Richmond
Please contact Ormond (ormond@mail.com) if you are
interested in a Socrates Café in the Point Richmond area.
Pleasanton
Please contact Jay Galvin (socrates@digitalFlack.com) if you are
interested in a Socrates Café in the Pleasanton, Livermore, Dublin area.
General Information
All these philosophical discussion groups are open to all comers - just show up!
Groups called a Socrates Cafe follow the Socrates Cafe format. Groups with other
names experiment with different formats.
At each meeting, the group usually discusses a given topic
(usually chosen on-the-spot by those in attendance) for an hour or more.
Sample topics: What is justice? What does it mean to be open-minded? What is passion?
What is privacy? What is intimacy?
What is happiness? Is war always bad? If offered an irreversible
immortality pill, would you take it?
While there are no dues, fees, etc., participants are
encouraged to buy something at the café which is providing
the pleasant meeting environment.
Contact (sfbayareasocrates@yahoo.com) if you want to
be added to an e-mail list for monthly reminders of upcoming meetings.
Other groups are forming all the time.
Group organizers may have their event added to the list
by contacting (sfbayareasocrates@yahoo.com).
Further information about Socrates Cafes can be found at:http://www.philosopher.org
(background to Socrates Cafes and much more)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SFBayAreaSocratesCafe
(includes calendar, message center, and other resources)
Other Groups of Interest www.TheBrainExchange.com
(A women's communal problem solving group)
Socrates Cafes and other Philosophy Groups in the SF Bay Area